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"Abortion Arguments Series: Day 3 of 10
"Abortion is healthcare."
I could mock this one by saying "yeah and arson is free home heating," but let me be fair and steelman their argument first:
"Abortion is performed by doctors, in medical settings, using medical procedures. Pregnancy carries real health risks. Some of the same procedures used in abortions are also used to treat miscarriages and emergencies. So if you restrict abortion, you're restricting healthcare."
That's the argument.
And the whole thing depends on the word “abortion” meaning two completely different things.
In medicine, the term "abortion" refers to almost any pregnancy that ends early. A miscarriage is a "spontaneous abortion." Removing remains after a baby has already died is technically an abortion procedure. Delivering early to save a mother's life can be charted as an abortion.
But in the political debate, "abortion" means the intentional killing of a living human being in the womb, usually a healthy child in a healthy pregnancy.
Those are not the same thing. But they share a word, and abortion advocates deliberately collapse them to create confusion.
The difference is intent.
When doctors deliver a baby early to save the mother, the goal is to save both. If the baby doesn't survive, that's a tragedy, but it’s not the objective.
In an elective abortion, the death of the child IS the objective. That's what "success" looks like (death is successful “healthcare” to them in this scenario).
So if this is "healthcare," what disease is being treated?
Pregnancy isn't a disease. The baby isn't a tumor. The procedure isn't curing anything. Its entire purpose is to end a life. Healthcare is supposed to heal, not kill. In an elective abortion, one patient always dies. 100% of the time.
And I want to drive this point home with a heart-wrenching story I heard a couple years ago when a woman called into a podcast and shared what this "healthcare" actually looks like.
She was pregnant and struggling with addiction. Her doctor didn't help her find treatment. He told her "how dare you bring a baby into this world" and pressured her into an abortion. When she asked about detox, he said that was "out of his purview."
The doctor's solution to a treatable addiction wasn't treatment. It was killing the child.
Afterward, she was herded into a waiting room full of young girls. They were all crying. The clinic had pre-positioned boxes of tissues throughout the room.
Think about that.
They knew these women would be devastated. They didn't put up information about alternatives or counseling or adoption. They put out tissues. They anticipated the grief, built it into the workflow, and kept the line moving.
That woman is now in her 50s. She can never have children. She has no grandchildren. Nobody warned her that would be the cost.
That's the "healthcare" we're talking about.
"But pregnancy is dangerous, Tyson"
It can be. The CDC reported 649 maternal deaths in 2024. And yes, every one is a tragedy.
But the mortality rate of pregnancy is 0.018%. The mortality rate of abortion for the child is 100%.
And every law I support protects the mother's life in genuine medical emergencies. There is not a single state in America where a doctor is prohibited from saving a dying woman.
So here's what abortion advocates do...
They share a heartbreaking medical emergency (usually selectively leaving out key details to shape a narrative), and then use it to argue that ALL abortion must remain legal.
But emergencies are already protected. Every law I support protects them.
Using the 1% to justify the 99% isn't an argument for healthcare. It's a red herring to avoid defending what elective abortion actually is.
Tomorrow I’ll address bodily autonomy: "My body, my choice."
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